Elvira Crois (0000-0001-5468-862X)

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Curator of Learning Processes | Researcher | Dramaturg
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Elvira Crois works as an assistant professor and postdoctoral researcher in arts education at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Their research focuses on worldmaking within and via participatory arts, in particular how tacit participation strategies affect aesthetics of audience participation and are used in playful education for social change. Elvira's research interests include participatory practice, arts education and social change, performer training, somatic and collective tacit knowledge, group dynamics and audience participation, and the commons.

PhD thesis 'Holding [ a Conversation with ] The Situation: The Performer's Tactical Ability and the Aesthetic Affect of Audience Participation (2022).

Elvira connects knowledges and people, whether via academic research, dramaturgy, or as curator of learning processes. Via participatory and collaborative processes, they create opportunities for the arts, education, the sociocultural field, and youth work to meet, both in national and international contexts.

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussels, BE

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussels, BE

Universiteit Antwerpen: Antwerpen, BE

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Activism requires Ecosystems (and how to regenerate our ecologies of change?)

Cave Comic

Does your activism really make a difference? What's the best way to start?

Find the people that care about the same things as you which could be people you wouldn't normally choose to hang out with, you know.

The only thing I know is that I can't just stay still and not do anything.

The snow has changed in texture and is sticking to the dogs' paws when they run...

Thought Provokers on Ecosystems

How to Work with the Ecosystem of the Room?

Kiemen van verzet

Regeneratieve ecologieën in speels en (toe)gewijd activisme

Regenerative Ecologies in Playful and Sacred Activism

From “The Cotton Wool” to Criticality: Unpacking FC Bergman’s The Sheep Song

A Fluid Aesthetics of Audience Participation

Holding a Conversation with the Situation

Kunst- en cultuureducatie: een go-between tussen kunst en publiek

Worldmaking: Crafting Spaces With and For Young People. Report Community of Practice 2023

A repertoire of touch in participatory choreography

A queer curation of audience participation

Guides Are Many Things

Holding [ a Conversation with ] the Situation The Performer’s Tactical Ability and the Aesthetic Affect of Audience Participation

Holding [a conversation with] the situation

Tacit Knowledges of Tactical Ability

Wereldmaken

Worldmaking

Worldmaking

Worldmaking: Crafting Spaces With and For Young People. Report Community of Practice 2022

Worldmaking: Crafting Spaces With and For Young People. Report Digital Worldmaking

Worldmaking: werelden scheppen met en voor jongeren

het houden van [ een gesprek met ] de situatie

Holding [ a Conversation with ] the Situation

A macrogenetic approach to study participatory performance

Participatieve praktijken op het kruispunt van kunst en jeugdwerk

Participatory Practice: Bridging Youth Work and the Arts. Report Poetic Podcast Sessions 2021

Thought Provokers on Participatory Practice

Wanneer rotsen zacht worden

Participatory Practice: Bridging Youth Work and the Arts. Report Remote Training 2020

Responsible combodying: the intelligence of discomfort in guiding interactive performance

Bearing collective learning processes: an inquiry into commoning knowledge

In dissensus, we trust: prototyping social relationships in participatory theatre

Een leven pellen als een artisjok: sensitief theater en presence

Voorbij de kroniek. Over het belang van theatertijdschriften

Voorbij de kroniek: over het belang van theatertijdschriften

Attending to disattunement